Lyrics: Robert Hunter
Music: Bill Payne
One of the new songs with Robert Hunter lyrics performed by Bill Payne.
This is a first shot at the lyrics - any help gratefully received.
A thousand nights, river away
Today on the heels of tomorrow
A thousand nights, a thousand days
[Through rain] don't care to borrow
Headinging back to Key Biscayne
Singing O Sole Mio in the rain
One more link in an endless chain
Folding trestles on a hell-bound train
Folding trestles on a hell-bound train
A thousand nights and a day
This is why the reader ran away
That's what I called to say
A thousand nights from yesterday
Straight as a hanging judge I am
Calm, cool, collected, somewhat insane
You believe I don't give a damn
But how the hell can I explain
A nice blue sun [tacks] in the west
Mercury tops a hundred degrees
I can't just do more than my best
Doing prayers out on rusted knees
Doing prayers out on rusted knees
A thousand nights and a day
This is why the reader ran away
That's what I called to say
A thousand nights from yesterday
Gone our separate ways together
Heard our footsteps in yours and mine
Less said, the better about it
Everything coming in all good time
This is my last will and testament
Over the rainbow and into the haze
Barely enough to cover the rent
No regrets at the end of days
With no regrets at the end of days
A thousand nights and a day
This is why the reader ran away
That's what I called to say
A thousand nights from yesterday
A thousand nights and a day
This is why the reader ran away
That's what I called to say
A thousand nights from yesterday
Under the dark soul shock of pain
One solid kick in the groin of shame
Ain't no kiss and rush away
To wash out the stains that remain in play
A thousand nights and one more day
To get the end of the play
A thousand nights and one more day
Love or lose, that's all that's left to say